Testing Delivery Systems in Transnational Virtual Learning: the Vocational Management Training for the European Tourism Industry (VocMat) Case Study

摘要

This article discusses the lessons learned from developing and delivering the Vocational Management Training for the European Tourism Industry (VocMat) online training programme, which was aimed at providing flexible, online distance learning for the European tourism industry. The programme was designed to address managers’ need for flexible, senior management level training which they could access at a time and place which suit their work and non work commitments. The authors present the two main approaches to using the Virtual Learning Environment, the feedback from the participants and the implications for this application of online technology in extending tourism training opportunities